Global Connections

I am currently taking part in a very Creative and fun global connection with Creatubbles.

I was asked to be a part of a dynamic Plano Texas team of 4 art teacher teammates using the

Creatubbles app and website to share art and learn globally.

I have always felt that being the only art teacher on a single campus is very isolating.

Blogging has opened new windows and allowed me to learn from teachers around the world.

Our school district uses Creatubbles to allow students to do the same by sharing and receiving

bubbles as the share their art using the Creatubbles website and app as a digital portfolio.

On October 12th, art teachers, students and parents will be able to connect through

Global Creativity Initiative boards.

What is Creatubbles? Think of it as a safe Pinterest like place for students to share and receive feed back for their artwork with bubbles and comments, if you enable.

You can post your students work or your students can post their work

when are using the app or personal devices. Just look for the gallery's below and post.

You and your students can view artwork from global students including our global teammates from Italy, Japan, UK and here in Plano Texas.

Here are the listings of the preset boards that students and teachers can post to and follow others.

If you would like to join and post pictures to the preset themes click here

There are tutorials on their site to guide you to posting and viewing.

(don't you like the little creative friends in the top left corner created by my student? ↖)

If you would like to follow my students and our Creatubbles site click here.

Here is a previous post on Digital portfolios too!

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Kandinsky Trees

My first graders really need help with their fine motor skills this year. After completing a very successful Kandinsky Concentric Circle painting lesson noted below, I followed up this past week with a tree inspired lesson. Once again, I found my inspiration from Jen Draw the Line At and I used her lesson suggestions for this very successful lesson. My student's used Crayola Metallic crayons instead of the Crayola Construction paper crayons and we used juice lids for some bigger circles in the stamping part of the lesson. Day 1 On day two constructed the trees and circle leaves. I passed out a 12 x 4 inch piece of black paper and had two different sizes of square paper for the circles. Yes, this was a challenge since we did not use pencil, but we drew with our scissors. Day 2 I will definite repeat lesson for next year! I will be displaying these soon. Displayed artwork is posted HERE ...

Monet's Pond

The Dallas Museum of Art has a wonderful Monet Painting in a beautiful gold frame which inspired me to create this lesson for our Big Art Day which is fast approaching in Texas schools. For our Big Art day this year I have a Theme....Circle Art! Themes are the way to go when organizing events. I love this new lesson that was inspired by one of my favorite artists, and two favorite bloggers: Painted Paper and Cassie Stephen's who also use themes. I ordered the 10 inch cardboard circle rounds for this lesson, the same size Cassie used in her Dot Day Art . School Specialty has various sizes. The kids loved painting on this canvas instead of paper. We read about Monet's garden and look at prints of his masterpieces. I even show them some of my pictures that I took when I visited his garden in France. On day one, we painted the pond and the water ...

Clay and Weaving!

I'm brave, I tried a new lesson again.... I can say as we are completing these clay frames that you have to follow some basic rules or you will have broken frames. We have had only 3, but I did make extras. My 4th graders tackled this lesson with stoneware clay, and finished them with oil pastels, one color of watercolor paint and I painted modge podge on them when dry. The texture is the key part of the coloring process! I have rollers and rubber texture mats. At least pencil think and more than 2 fingers in width. You need some lid tracers and a pin tool. Don't try to cookie cutter it. I strongly recommend 15 or 19 holes punched with a straw. You must have an odd number!! If they go hole craze, pop out the clay from the straw and plug the holes. I found the directions for weaving the warp threads here on Cassie Stephen's blog. I am also doing her plate weaving at the same time with...

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